‘Moulds are for pottery, not for midwives’. Exploring the career of an academic midiwfe
With two nurses for parents, Liz McNeill once swore she would never follow in their footsteps. “I heard all the stories growing up, my Dad was a psychiatric nurse and my mother worked in aged care, and I thought, no thanks,” she recalls. But fate had other ideas. From a young age, Liz was drawn […]
Gender affirmation, surrogate leave, among new progressive conditions won during enterprise bargaining
What began in 1970 as the Family Planning Alliance of South Australia continues to lead the way advancing workplace conditions, thanks to an ANMF (SA Branch)-negotiated Enterprise Agreement that has introduced several progressive new provisions. Nurses and midwives at the organisation, now known as the Sexual Health Information Networking and Education South Australia (SHINE SA), […]